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Timeline Of The Near Future

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1. Solar eclipse of 7 min 14 s - Solar Saros 139. Exceeding 7 minutes of totality - this will be the first time this has happened in 177 years; the last one occurred on June 30 - 1973. when the Concorde prototype followed the totality spot during 73 min






2. On December 2 at 12-32 UTC Mars will occult Jupiter.






3. FIFA World Cup to be held in Qatar.






4. The second full orbit of Neptune around the sun since its discovery in 1846.






5. Solar eclipse of 7 min 26 s - saros 139.






6. 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.






7. On March 4 at 10-52 UTC - Venus will occult Uranus.






8. Triple conjunction of Mars and Saturn.






9. There will be a Solar Eclipse on August 21.






10. Return of Halley's Comet.






11. Solar eclipse of 7 min 29 s (very close to the theoretical maximum) - saros 139 - 'crowing' this serie. This is predicted to be the longest eclipse during the current 10000 year period - from 4000 BC to AD 6000 (eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak -






12. Transit of Venus on June 9.






13. The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (comprising Saudi Arabia - Oman - United Arab Emirates - Bahrain - Kuwait and Qatar) hope to establish monetary union in this year. FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Brazil. 34th America's C






14. Beginning of the 16th century according to the Islamic calendar.






15. Triple conjunction Mars






16. 7th millennium begins in the Hebrew calendar.






17. The Voyager program is expected to terminate. Manned mission to the Moon by China.






18. 'First Plutonian anniversary' of the dwarf planet's discovery - given that Pluto's orbit is just under 248 Earth years.






19. 52 UTC - Venus will occult Saturn.






20. Triple conjunction Mars






21. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System.






22. Triple conjunction Mars






23. Triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.






24. With an estimated probability of 0.07% - Apollo asteroid 1999 RQ36 could hit the Earth.






25. The Message From Earth will reach Gliese 581.






26. Triple conjunction Mars






27. On August 1 - Mercury occults Regulus (last occultation of Regulus by Mercury was on August 13 - 364 BC).






28. The maximum calendar year limit within the Microsoft Windows XP - Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.






29. Lease held by the Pitjantjatjara people on Uluru to Australian government set to expire.






30. On December 2 at 12-32 UTC Mars will occult Jupiter.






31. First expected manned mission to Mars by NASA.






32. Brood X - the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas - will emerge.






33. Two solar eclipses will occur in this year.






34. The One country - two systems model between China and Macau will expire.






35. Transit of Venus.






36. The maximum calendar year limit within the Microsoft Windows XP - Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.






37. March 17






38. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System






39. December 10






40. Information on the Falklands War declassified.






41. 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.






42. Mercury occults Neptune.






43. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System






44. Construction of Sagrada Familia to be completed.






45. March 17






46. Copyright on the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons expires.






47. The One country - two systems model between China and Hong Kong will terminate in this year.






48. Long-duration lunar eclipse of approximately 106.1 minutes.






49. Transit of Venus on June 9.






50. There will be a Solar Eclipse on August 21.